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Jerusalem
A baby was killed and eight people
injured when a car slammed into
pedestrians at a Jerusalem light
railway stop overnight emergency
ser vices said, in what police described
as a “terrorist attack”.
The driver was shot by police as he
tried to flee the scene on foot and was
in serious condition in hospital, police
spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said,
adding he was a resident of Arab East
Jerusalem.
Two of the injured pedestrians were
in serious condition, police said.
“ We can confirm that this was a
terrorist attack. The driver ... is a
resident of Silwan and has a terrorist
background. He has ser ved time in jail
for terror activity,” Rosenfeld said.
Footage of the incident showed the
car veer to the right from the traffic
lane and hurtle at speed into a light
railway platform, hitting pedestrians
before coming to a halt.
The incident took place along a
main route leading into the centre of
Jerusalem, close to the national police
headquarters and one of the city’s
main hospitals at Mount Scopus.
Repeated damage
caused
by
Palestinians to the Jerusalem light
railway, which links Arab and Jewish
neighbourhoods and was once hailed
by Israeli authorities as a symbol of
coexistence, has put a third of its
carriages out of commission.
The tensions have underscored
deepening divisions in the Israeli-
occupied part of the city that Israel
claims as its “indivisible capital”.
Tensions have been high in
Jerusalem since the 50-day Gaza war
that ended in August and the killing
of a Palestinian teen in the city by
alleged Israeli assailants to avenge the
deaths of three abducted Israeli youths
in the occupied West Bank.
The last deadly incidents in
Jerusalem took place in August when
a Palestinian killed an Israeli and
overturned a bus with a construction
vehicle and a gunman wounded a
soldier in attacks that appeared to be
a backlash against Israel’s Gaza war.
— Reuters
Terrorist kills baby in Jerusalem car ramming
London
A failed footballer who enjoyed a
champagne lifestyle by pretending to be
a Premier League star has been jailed for
four years for a £163,000 ($NZ330,000)
fraud.
Medi Abalimba, 25, had earned
about £20,000 a week at one stage with
Derby County, but slipped down the
leagues through lack of discipline and
commitment.
He continued living the high life by
passing himself off as Chelsea player
Gael Kakuta, staying in the best rooms
in the finest hotels in London, running
up bar tabs of thousands of pounds
and being chauffeur-driven around in
a Bentley, Manchester Crown Court
heard today.
Abalimba would swan into nightclubs,
accompanied by an “entourage” of
drivers, bodyguards and sometimes
young women, blowing thousands of
pounds in champagne at the bar, paid
for using stolen credit card details, the
court heard.
He had stints as a professional player
with Derby, Oldham Athletic, Southend
United, Fulham and Crystal Palace and
once commanded a transfer fee of more
than £1 million.
He will start a four-year jail term today
after admitting 12 offences of fraud and
dishonesty, in London, West Yorkshire,
Manchester and Derby.
He had 19 other offences taken into
consideration, totalling a loss to those
defrauded to £163,000. — PA
Fake footballer
jailed for living
high life
Medi Abalimba
Gael Kakuta
Washington
Apple says its iCloud ser ver has
been the target of “intermittent ”
attacks, hours after a security blog
said Chinese authorities had been
trying to hack into the system.
Apple did not specifically mention
China, but posted a security
bulletin citing the hack attempts,
and indicating its cloud computing
platform had not been breached.
“ We’re aware of intermittent
organised network attacks using
insecure certificates to obtain user
information, and we take this very
seriously,” it said.
“These attacks don’t compromise
iCloud ser vers, and they don’t impact
iCloud sign in on iOS devices or
Macs running OS X Yosemite using
the Safari browser.”
Yosemite is the newest operating
system for Mac computers and iOS is
the platform for mobile devices such
as iPhones and iPads.
On Tuesday, the security website
Greatfire.org which monitors on-
line censorship in China claimed
“Chinese authorities” had launched
the attacks on Apple’s iCloud.
“This is clearly a malicious attack
on Apple in an effort to gain access
to usernames and passwords and
consequently all data stored on
iCloud such as iMessages, photos,
contacts, etc,” according to the blog,
which said it appeared to coincide
with the launch in China of the
newest iPhone.
“ While the attacks on Google
and Yahoo enabled the authorities
to snoop on what information
Chinese were accessing on those
two platforms, the Apple attack is
different,” Greatfire said.
“ Many Apple customers use iCloud
to store their personal information,
including iMessages, photos and
contacts. This may also somehow be
related again to images and videos of
the Hong Kong protests being shared
on the mainland.”
The news comes just weeks after
a widely publicised incident which
allowed hackers to access and post
nude pictures of celebrities including
Jennifer Lawrence from their iCloud
accounts.
Apple maintained that some
celebrity accounts were compromised
in a “targeted attack” to gain
passwords, but that it found no
breach of the iCloud or other Apple
systems.
In its latest statement, Apple said
its users were safe if they relied on its
software, but also cautioned against
ignoring security warnings.
“ If you’re connecting to a website
that isn’t secure, you’ll see a message
that says: ‘Safari can’t verify the
identity of the website,’” Apple said.
“ If you see this message, don’t
proceed or attempt to sign in.”
— AFP
Apple fends off cloud hackers
London
The mother of Oscar Pistorius’ slain
girlfriend insists she does not want
“revenge”, the day after the disgraced
South African athlete was handed a
five-year jail term for shooting her
daughter dead.
Pistorius, the first double amputee
Paralympian to compete against
able-bodied athletes at the 2012
London Olympics, was ordered
yesterday to ser ve a maximum five
years in prison for culpable homicide
after a seven-month trial.
June Steenkamp told British
broadcaster ITV overnight that she
was “settled” with Pistorius’ sentence
for killing Reeva Steenkamp, even
though it could mean he is out of
prison and under house arrest after
10 months.
Looking pale and holding her
husband Barry’s hand, she added:
“ We don’t want revenge, we want
a fair punishment under the
circumstances of his disabilities. We
wouldn’t have wanted him to go to
jail and be abused and I feel that he
will realise that he can’t go around
doing that, he can’t kill someone like
that.”
Pistorius had testified that he
shot Reeva Steenkamp four times
through a locked bathroom door at
his Pretoria home on Valentine’s Day
last year after he mistakenly believed
she was an intruder.
Prosecutors had argued that he
murdered her in a fit of rage after an
argument.
June Steenkamp said the family
accepted the decision, despite
indicating that some members were
not “entirely happy ”.
“ We’re very settled with the
sentence,” she added.
“ We may not feel that justice has
been done, but we have just got to
accept what the judge decided. Not
everyone is entirely happy ... the facts
that she (the judge) had before her
maybe weren’t enough. But we have
to live.”
Her husband Barry also said the
family had to go along with what
Judge Thokozile Masipa had decided.
“Only Oscar knows whether that
sentence is acceptable to him,” he
said.
“I’ve got my feelings to the whole
thing. But we do accept what the
judge handed down.” — Reuters
PICTURE: Reuters
Parents of Reeva Steenkamp, June and Barry Steenkamp, attend the
sentencing hearing of Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius in
Pretoria.
Steenkamps not seeking vengeance
Dallas
The one-year-old King Charles
Spaniel belonging to a Dallas nurse
infected with Ebola has tested free of
the virus and will remain in isolation for
the remainder of his 21-day monitoring
period, the city of Dallas said today.
“Bentley is doing great! Turns out he
likes butt rubs,” Dallas spokeswoman
Sana Syed wrote in a recent tweet
about the dog belonging to nurse Nina
Pham, who is in good condition at a
National Institutes of Health hospital in
Maryland.
The pet, evacuated from Pham’s
apartment, has been under the spotlight
after officials in Madrid put down the
dog of a Spanish nurse who contracted
Ebola while caring for a patient.
If Bentley remains Ebola-free, he
is likely to be released from Dallas
Animal Ser vices, where he is in a special
isolation unit under the care of workers
wearing protective suits, around the start
of November.
The city has been sending pictures of
the dog regularly to Pham, who was
the first person to contract Ebola in the
United States.
She got the virus while treating an
Ebola-infected man who had just arrived
in Texas from Liberia. — Reuters
Ebola patient ’s pooch cleared
Geneva
Switzerland has announced it would
like the Alpine country’s deep-seated
traditions such as yodelling and
precision watchmaking to be inscribed
on a United Nations global heritage
list.
The Swiss government said overnight
it planned to submit a dozen candidates
for listing by UNESCO, the world
body’s cultural arm, from 2015.
UNESCO, better
known for
registering historic buildings or natural
sites, also lists what are considered key
parts of the globe’s “intangible heritage”.
In addition to yodelling and
watchmaking, the Swiss want UNESCO
to list the country’s tradition of graphic
and typographic design — epitomised
by the Helvetica font.
Also in the running are the Alpine
livestock season, marked by ceremonies
in which herders take their animals
to and from the mountains, as well as
the Easter processions in the town of
Mendrisio, and the Winemakers’ Festival
in the Lake Geneva city of Vevey, held
every 20 years. — Reuters
Swiss want
yodelling heritage
listed by UN
Washington
Four former employees of the
Blackwater security firm have been
found guilty in connection with the
2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in
Baghdad that left 14 dead.
A jury in a federal court in Washington
found Nicholas Slatten guilty of first-
degree murder overnight. Paul Slough,
Evan Liberty and D ustin Heard were
found guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
The verdicts came after a trial that lasted
more than two months, and weeks of
deliberations.
The Blackwater employees were
guarding a US diplomatic convoy on
September 16, 2007 in Baghdad’s Nisour
Square when they opened fire.
A total of 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians
were killed, according to an Iraqi
investigation, while a US count put the
death toll at 14. The hail of gunfire also
wounded 18 people.
“People who could laugh, who could
love, were turned into bloodied, bullet-
riddled corpses, people who were not
legitimate targets ... who were no real
threat to them,” federal prosecutor
Anthony Asuncion said during the trial.
A sentencing date was not yet
announced. — Reuters
US security staff found
guilty of Iraq slaughter
Ottawa
Terror arrived at the doors of the
Canadian government today, as at
least two gunmen mounted what
appeared to be a co-ordinated attack
in the heart of Ottawa, the capital.
One shot dead a soldier guarding
the National War Memorial, before
racing into the nearby Parliament
Building, where he was shot and
killed.
He has been named by Canadian
officials as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.
Another shooting was reported at
about the same time at the Rideau
Centre shopping mall, also in central
Ottawa, but police said they could
not confirm this.
The incident came a day after
Canada raised its terrorism-alert
level following the death of another
soldier, killed in a hit-and-run attack
in Q uebec by a man with suspected
jihadist sympathies.
Other nations, including the UK,
have also been on heightened alert,
in response to the rise of Isis across
swathes of Iraq and Syria. Canada is
among the countries that joined the
US-led coalition to combat Isis, with
Canadian aircraft due to participate
in the bombing campaign.
The first shots rang out shortly
before 10am local time (3am New
Zealand time) at the war memorial
in Confederation Square, metres
from parliament. After shooting the
soldier, who was wearing ceremonial
uniform, a man with a rifle was
reportedly chased by police towards
the government buildings.
One eyewitness, Scott Walsh,
told the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation (CBC) that he saw a
man wearing blue jeans and a scarf
over his face, and holding a
double-barrelled shotgun.
Mr Walsh said the man forced
a driver from a car at gunpoint
and then drove up to the doors of
parliament. Inside, reports suggested
at least 30 more shots were fired
before the gunman was confirmed
dead, shot by police.
Police would not speculate on a
motive for the shootings.
Ottawa Hospital said it received
two victims, both listed in stable
condition, in addition to the soldier.
About midday local time, Ottawa
police spokesman Chuck Benoit said
two or three gunmen were believed
to be involved in the attacks.
Gilles Michaud, assistant
commissioner of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, called it a “dynamic,
unfolding situation”.
Police said they were still scouring
central Ottawa for at least one
other suspect. Parliament and
the surrounding area were placed
on lockdown as armed officers
converged on the scene.
The Canadian Prime Minister,
Stephen Harper, and the leaders
of the two main opposition parties
were all said to have left the building
safely.
The Globe and Mail political
reporter Josh Wingrove tweeted
that the elegant gothic hallways of
parliament were filled with the smell
of gunpowder and that he had seen a
“motionless body outside the library
of parliament ”, perhaps that of the
shooting suspect.
An Ottawa hospital said it had
taken in three patients following
the shootings, two of whom were in
stable condition.
On Tuesday, another Canadian
ser vice member was killed when two
soldiers were run over in a car park
in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, near
Montreal, by a 25-year-old Islamic
convert, Martin Rouleau, who sped
away from the scene and was pursued
by police.
There is no indication that
the incident was related to the
shootings, but Rouleau was one of
90 Canadians being monitored by
authorities after having been deemed
a potential threat. — Reuters
PICTURE: Reuters
Armed police head into the Parliament Building in Ottawa after several
gunmen launched an attack.
Terror strikes Canada
Ottawa
The Canadian parliament ’s 58-year-
old head of security is being hailed as
a hero after shooting dead a gunman
who stormed the building.
MPs identified the House of
Commons’ Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin
Vickers as the man responsible for
firing the shots that brought down
the assailant.
Member of Parliament Craig Scott
said on Twitter Vickers had slain the
gunman just as he approached rooms
packed with politicians.
“MPs and Hill staff owe their safety,
even lives, to Sergeant-at-Arms
Kevin Vickers who shot attacker
just outside the MPs’ caucus rooms,”
Scott wrote.
Vickers, a 29-year veteran of the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
was appointed Sergeant-at-Arms in
2006.
The position leaves him in charge
of security at the parliamentary
buildings.
He also carries the mace, the symbol
of parliamentary authority, during
formal proceedings and ceremonies.
Canada’s Minister of Justice Peter
Mackay named Vickers in a post
on Twitter following the shoot-out
drama.
“ To all in Ottawa, stay safe and
strong. Thank God for Sgt at Arms
Kevin Vickers and our Cdn security
forces. True heroes,” Mackay wrote.
Canadian minister of veteran affairs,
Julian Fantino also identified Vickers
in a post.
“ I am safe and profoundly grateful
to Sgt at Arms Kevin Vickers and
our security forces for selfless act of
keeping us safe,” he wrote. — AFP
Head of security praised as hero for shooting gunman
Kevin Vickers